Thread-cleaning attachment for textile machinery



, Mar. 3. 1925.

. 1,528,277 M. C. STERLING ET AL THREAD' L ANING ATTACHMENT FOR TEXTILEMACHINERY Filed Sept. 2, 1924.

Q NYRONCSTERL/NG Map/ M Z'SALLADE *BYW- Patented Mar. 3, 1925.

'UNlTED STATES MYnoN o. srna'rme, or Mrrrmnenne,

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THREAD-CLEANING ATTACHMENT FOR TEXTILE MACHINERY.

- Application filed September 2, 1924. Serial No. 735,375.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MYRON C, STERLING and WILLIAM E. SADLADE, residing,respec tively, at Miffiinburg, in the county of Union, and Turbotville,in the county of Northumberland, both in the State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented-new and usefullmprovements in Thread-Cleaning Attachments forTextile Machinery, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention has reference, in its broad aspect, to improvements inthread cleaning and guidingattachments for use in conjunction withtextile machinery, and with respectthereto attention isinvited to ourprior patent ona similar attachment granted November 20th, 1923, Number1,475,036. More particularly our present invention is designed to removeslubs, waste, and the like, from silk, cotton, tibreor other threadstock whether in the raw, spunnor thrown state, and at anystagc in theprocess of its manufacture into the finished product.

Our present invention not only differs in form from our previousattachment as described in the above identified patent, and other priorpatented guiding and cleaning devices, but it also has certainadvantages which are peculiar to it and are evidently unattainable bythe structures of these prior devices. In the first place we haveprovided a guiding and cleaning attachment which may be adjustablymounted as anentirety upon any desired portion of a textile machine, andwhich when so mounted may be quickly and readily detached therefromwithout employing special tools. Furthermore we have not only conceivedof a unique method of effecting relative adjustability between thecleaning blades, but we have provided a novel spring clip for detachablyand adjustably mounting the guiding element of the invention inproximity with the cleaning element so that our device is easilythreaded and the proper tension maintained upon the thread stock.

To these and other ends which will hereinafter appear, our inventionconsists in the construction, arrangement and combination of partsdescribed hereinafter and pointed out in the claims forming a part ofthis specification and to Which reference should be made in determiningthe scope of the invention.

One embodiment of our invention is represented by way of example int-heaccompanying drawing wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of our threadcleaning and guiding attachment,

, Figure 2 is a rear elevation of our inven-= tion,

Figure 3, an end view showing the manner in which the thread is fed tothe guide and cleaning elements,

Figure 4i, a perspective view of the'cleanlng element per se, and

Figure 5, a detail view of the spring clip which is employed todetachably and 'adjustably hold the guideelement in place;

Like characters of reference designate like or similar parts throughoutthe several views of the drawing, in which The numeral (1) designates abase which is formed with. an angular top face (2) provided with agroove groove with its tang (4) rigidly'engaging in the material of thebase, is a double elliptical, one piece spring" member (5) havingterminal fingers (6) whichare directed from opposite ends: of thespringand are designed to detachably and adjust- ,ably engage a porcelain ormetallic guide block (7 Theguide block (7) is formed with an angularrecess in its base designed to fit over the angularly formed top face(2) of the base and obviously upon the exertion of pressure at its endsit may he slid along the base to an extent determined by the over alllength of the spring. To dotach the block (7) it is slid past one of thefingers (6) and then released by moving it in the opposite direction.The block is provided with a slot (8) for receiving the thread stockdesignated X in Figure 3. Our thread cleaning attachment per secomprises an angularly formed plate (9) having elongated openings (10)in the base portion (11) thereof through which screws are engaged tomount the plate on the base (1). )Vhen so mounted on the base, theremaining portion (12) of the plate ex tends at an angle outwardly fromthe sides of the base, and integrally formed on the top edge of theportion (12) is a standard (13) which carries the fixed element (14) ofour thread cleaning attachment. An adjustable blade element (15) isformed with elongated openings (16) through which screws or the likeengage to hold it in 0- sition upon the portion (.12) of the pliiteSeated in the and beneath the element (14). The distance betweenelements (14) and (15) may thus, manifestly, be adjusted to accommodatedifferent sizes and kinds of threads and the path of travel of thethread through such members maybe regulated by adjusting the block (7).

While it is believed that the operation of our thread cleaning andguiding attachment is made clear in the foregoing, particular attentionis invited to the fact that all parts are independently adjustablethereby facilitating and greatly increasing the sphere of usefulness ofour device. The base member (1) may be either a permanent portion of atextile machine, or it may be detachable and adapted tobe clamped orotherwise secured to a machine.

l/Vhile we have in the foregoing elected to describe and illustrate onlyone form of our thread cleaning and guiding attachment it will beunderstood that we do not desire thereby to limit ourselves orconfineour invention to the specific details of such form, except as may bedefined by the scope of the claims subjoined hereto.

Having described our invention with such attention to detail as willenable one skilled in the art to understand its construction andadvantages, We claim 1. An attachment for textile machinery comprising abase, a thread guide carried by the base, a thread cleaning elementcarried by the base, said thread guide and said thread cleaning elementboth being inclined with respect to the base and extending therefrom onthe same side thereof at relatively different angles.

2. An attachment for textile machinery comprising a base, a guidingelement for thread carried by the base and inclined away from thevertical axis of the base, a cleaning element for thread carried by thebase and arranged at a greater inclination from the vertical axis of thebase than the guiding element and in the same direction, a spring membercarried by the base for adjusta-bly and detachably retaining the guidingelement in place, said cleaning element being adjustably mounted on thebase and means for adjusting the guiding element to compensate fordifferent gauges of thread. I

3. An attachment for textile machinery comprising a thread cleaningelement formed with thread engaging members, means for adjusting one ofsaid members with respect to the other, said cleaning element having anangularly formed body adapted to be adjustably attached to avbase, andmeans for adjusting the pathof travel of the thread through the'cleaning mem bers, said means including a spring pressed detachable andadjustable guiding block disposed in proximity with the thread cleaningelement.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures hereunto.

MYRON C. STERLING. WILLIAM E, SALLADE.

